IDENTILIN$$ F14300G|1669|pp. 187-88\JH copied A(?)\5-28-91\P:EWS\o(CSmH)\6-14-01\C:JMK\7-20-01;JSC\8-10-01\P:DAS\cd(L)\2-24-02\C:JSC\4-29-03\p:mvf\fs(TxAM)\11-15-07 143.00G.OHE %X%1To the Countess of Bedford%2 %/[blank.line] %/%X%1Begun in France%2, %1but never perfected%2. 143.00G.001 T%+Hough I be %1dead%2 and buried, yet I have 143.00G.002 (Living in you) Court enough in my grave, 143.00G.003 As oft as there I think my self to be, 143.00G.004 So many resurrections waken me; 143.00G.005 That thankfulness your favours have begot 143.00G.006 In me, embalmes me, that I do not rot; 143.00G.007 This season as 'tis Easter, as 'tis spring, 143.00G.008 Must both to growth and to confession bring 143.00G.009 My thoughts dispos'd unto your influence, so 143.00G.010 These verses bud, so these confessions grow; 143.00G.011 First I confess I have to others lent 143.00G.012 Your stock, and over prodigally spent [CW: Your] 143.00G.013 Your treasure, for since I had never known [p.188] 143.00G.014 Vertue and beauty, but as they are grown 143.00G.015 In you, I should not think or say they shine, 143.00G.016 (So as I have) in any other Mine; 143.00G.017 Next I confess this my confession, 143.00G.018 For, 'tis some fault thus much to touch upon 143.00G.019 Your praise to you, where half rights seem too much 143.00G.020 And make your minds sincere complexion blush. 143.00G.021 Next I confess my[see_notes] 'mpenitence,[sic] for I 143.00G.022 Can scarce repent my first fault, since thereby 143.00G.023 Remote low Spirits, which shall ne'r read you, 143.00G.024 May in less lessons find enough to do, 143.00G.025 By studying copies, not Originals, 143.00G.0SS %X%1Desunt cae%Ltera%2. 143.00G.0$$ no sts; no ind; l.21: possibly no space after "my" in CSmH copy; SS roughly centered under poem, but not centered on page